Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic will travel to Albania on Wednesday for a three-day official visit during which she will meet with the Albanian state leadership in Tirana and visit the Adriatic port of Durres, the President's Office announced on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Grabar-Kitarovic will meet with her host, President Ilir Meta for talks, which will be followed by a meeting of the official delegations.

On Thursday, the president will meet with Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and Parliament Speaker Granit Ruci. Grabar-Kitarovic will also address the Albanian national parliament.

She will travel to Albanian Adriatic city of Durres on the same day, where she will present a joint project between Albania, Montenegro, and Croatia on the conservation and reducing waste in the Adriatic Sea.

President Meta paid a working visit to Croatia in January, when the two sides discussed possibilities of further improving their good relations, especially in the fields of industry and energy. On that occasion, Grabar-Kitarovic raised the issue of pollution of the Adriatic Sea.

Grabar-Kitarovic and Meta agreed then that the protection and prevention of pollution of the Adriatic and its coastal areas was of strategic importance to both countries and that a new cooperation mechanism, the Adriatic Trilateral, could help towards that end.

Noting the importance of the further process of EU enlargement for the full consolidation of Croatia’s eastern neighbourhood, Grabar-Kitarovic expressed Croatia’s strong support for Albania’s EU membership bid.

The two countries also maintain good bilateral cooperation within the US-Adriatic Charter in the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.

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